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Waiting for her moment, Adonara slips around Bran hoping to get on the other side of Ungol-Pagh. It’s a tight squeeze, though, and it’s been a while since she’s done this sort of dancing.
Expect to get hit. Roll with it, she encourages herself.
Bracing for the worst, she rounds the other side of the shifted tiefling and lunges through the claw she fully expects may be waiting for her.
Bachu tries to bring the man (?) down.
[i]Bran strikes Ungol-Pagh and immediately grabs him.
Adonara then strikes Ungol-Pagh doing a small amount of damage.
Bachu then punches Ungol-Pagh who manages to shake off the stunning effect.
Cursing slightly under his breath for getting so far from his partners, Ragnar swims back towards the fight.
Lady give me the foresight needed for this fight
Not liking the options he seems to have been provided, Til fires and then reloads the crossbow.
Tilorean's bolt misses
Fulk fires a rapid flurry of acidic bolts at the nearest skum.
Crit?
Fulk drops one of the skum and starts attacking a second.
The remaining skum try to break free but fail.
Bran tries to pin his opponent.
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Adonara takes another elusive step back to make room for Pellius between herself and Bran, thinking it might be safer for the more cautious fighter now that Bran is holding down the sahuagin leader.
As she goes, she takes advantage of the opening the shifter provides and carefully thrusts at Ungol-Pagh even while Bran grapples him.
She takes what advantage from the situation that she can, but her concern to avoid running through all the way into Bran rather blunts her attack.
Bachu tries to put the leader out.
Bran grins and growls out his words, "There you are."
Bran manages to grapple Ungol-Pagh.
Adonara sneak attacks him while he is grappled and Bachu finishes him off. Ungol-Pagh is no more. At the sight of the leader's death the rest of the skum flee.
"Okay. Stupid question. How long is it going to take us to find those elves, now?"
Bran purrs, "Well fought. Let's move quickly."
The big hellcat's eyes settle on Tilorean, "The elves, yes, let's find them."
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“Well, he didn’t gloat along the lines of, ‘You’ll never find your cousins, elf!’ so hopefully poking around a bit will turn them up without too much trouble,” Adonara bubbles, taking the magic that’s currently sustaining her breath in stride. She nods her thanks to the others for making quick work of the skum leader, resisting the urge to pet the shifted Bran’s fur. Besides, wet cats aren’t half as much fun, even when they’re not actually her sapient friends, which would only make it still more awkward.
“I think we passed a turning or two as they led us here, so checking those might be a place to start,” she suggests. Before she sets off back down the corridor to the first branch off, she does give the room and Ungol-Pagh’s body a quick scan for signs of anything hidden or otherwise useful, both with a mundane once-over, and with a cantrip to check for any obvious magic.
As Adonara checks the leader, Fulk casts Detect Magic and checks the other dead skum.
Bran, understanding the limitations of his hellcat form, prowls the area, watching out for further threats. ”The skum leader was waiting for something, maybe someone. There may be greater threats.”
Agreed. but for now, lets just deal with the issues that we have right now.
Ragnar swims over to the back of the party.
Til helps clear the bodies of anything immediately useful or apparently valuable and light, given that the bodies shouldn't really go anywhere while they search.
You find:
8 tridents
wand of lightning bolts (12 charges)
amulet of natural armour +1
headband of vast intelligence +2
lesser extend metamagic rod
carving tools
a strange valve ring
I will hold the tools and ring for right now.
As well, I can make use of a trident while we are under the water.
Ragnar puts actions to words, unless someone else stops him.
"I could make good use of the headband and wand. The amulet should go to one of our valiant melee specialists."
Bran tilts his head and turns it to take in the group, "Bachu has one. Give the amulet to Ragnar."
Bachu picks up a trident for underwater use and says, "Yes, let Ragnar have the amulet."
Appreciated, and I will make good use of it.
Ragnar picks up the amulet and snakes it over his head.
"Valve ring? Think that might have anything to do with the pumps not working? We should bring that with us, I think. Let's try the side tunnel back by the chief's area first."
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“I don’t suppose any of you gentlemen are much for engineering?” Adonara asks, giving the valve a dubious glance before stashing it away for safekeeping. “I know I’m certainly not, but I suppose we’ll worry about that once we see what the pumps are like. One can always hope they won’t be all that complicated.”
Oh, interesting, she thinks, spotting the rod. That might be amusing, if we can think of the right way to use it.
“Right,” she says, straightening, taking Til’s advice and drifting back down the passage to look down the side-branch to the north. She gives the rod a playful twirl as she goes, and it spins slowly through the water and around her hand.
Heading up the side tunnel you can see that it leads into a small tributary. To the north you can hear nothing, but to the west you can hear the sounds of something large splashing.
Adonara, I have been known to dabble in engineering.
As he pockets the ring.
I think we might be able to do something with the pumps with this though.
Ragnar then glides through the water at the back of the party keeping an eye on things.
Hearing the splashing, Bran stops for a moment, forcing the whole group to pause as he is in the front.
The hellcat’s voice rumbles out, ”We are not fishmen. Perhaps we can drain this place before we risk any more fighting?”
Perhaps. But the first trick will be to find the pumps
"Either way, something splashing means that direction isn't completely flooded."
"The man's got a point."
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Adonara tamps down her frivolity as she considers the paths before her and the others’ words. “I’m sure it would take ages to drain this place appreciably, unless the pumps are beyond exceptional, but there’s no harm in being cautious and trying to get started, at least, before confronting anything else that might be roaming around down here.”
“Why don’t we head north first, and if we find the pumps, so much the better, or the prisoners. And if not, then we can head west, see what’s splashing around, and perhaps the original smugglers’ tunnels, for another way out, before turning to the rest of this place.”
With that, she bobs quietly on ahead to the passage north, hoping that whatever’s to the west is far enough away and uninterested to look the immersed Ravens’ way as they pass north across the tributary that divides the largest space of the flooded level.
The eastern walls of this low ceilinged cave is riddled with one foot diameter holes, most of which are adorned with a circular ring of silvery metal etched with tiny runes.
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The Unquenchable Fire burns even below, Adonara thinks piously and hopefully as she spots the wall of holes. Is this where things are supposed to drain?
The levels between the channel west and the stairs leading to the late, unlamented leader of the skum, &c., &c., are a bit tricky for her to put together mentally, but she thinks that sounds possible. She motions Ragnar over with quiet excitement, “What do you think? Could this be where that valve we found goes? And could we patch things up from this side?”
She considers the holes carefully, trying to spot any missing a ring of the size of the group found, and taking a closer look at the runes on the rings in place, trying to sort out what they mean - or do.
Adonara, you can see where the valve ring will fit
"Wnt me to give that a shot?" Til asks after seeing Adonara looking at the ring and the wall of holes, obviously trying to figure out how to fix the system.
Tilorean, after looking around for several minutes you are able to see where the valve fits into the series of valve rings and pumps. It is clear that the valves are separate from the pump itself but looking through a gap in the valves you can see the pump room beyond. You are confident that you have repaired the valves, now it only reamins to go to the other room to activate the pump.
Well with a solid grasp of engineering, I can assert that this valve ring does fit on those
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Adonara floats back a bit to give Ragnar and Tilorean room to work, settling in to look on. “I love work,” she murmurs, trivially, “I could watch people work all day.”
Despite her nonchalance, she does watch carefully, keep an eye out for what to look for so she can improve her own skills, since so far she’s more of a dabbler in mechanical things.
“Thank you, gentlemen,” she says, bobbing into an odd submarine curtsey as they finish the job, before looking for a way to get to the side with the controls: a hatch or another way out of this room, or if the group will have to backtrack to the flooded hall from which they were first escorted.